TIMOTHY J. CALDWELL
| TIMOTHY J. CALDWELL, pioneer
physician, was born in North Carolina, in 1839, growing to manhood on a
farm and acquiring his early education in the common schools of his native
State. In 1853 he removed to Iowa, settling at Redfield in Dallas
County, and three years later began the study of medicine. Later he
entered the Medical College at Keokuk, from which he was graduated in the
class of 1861. He located at Adel where he began to practice
medicine. In 1864 he was appointed surgeon of the Twenty-third Iowa
Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war. He then
spent a year in study at Philadelphia and another in Bellevue Hospital in
New York. In 1891 he took post-graduate work in New York and gave
one winter to study at New Orleans. He has served as president of
the State Medical Society of Iowa. In politics Dr. Caldwell is a
Republican and in 1881 was elected Representative in the Nineteenth
General Assembly. At the close of his term he was elected to the
Senate from the District composed of the counties of Audubon, Guthrie and
Dallas, where he served by reelection in the Twentieth, Twenty-first,
Twenty-second and Twenty-third General Assemblies. Dr. Caldwell was
president of the company which built the railroad from Waukee to Adel and
has always been interested in the growth of his home town.
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